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Belgian police raid EU’s diplomatic service on fraud suspicion
BRUSSELS, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Belgian police have raided the EU’s diplomatic service (EEAS) in Brussels and a training college, the College of Europe in Bruges, as part of a […]
Guinea-Bissau election commission says cannot conclude presidential election process
BISSAU, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission said on Tuesday it is unable to finalize the November 23 presidential election after armed men seized ballots and vote tallies from […]
Italy set to extend permission for military supplies to Ukraine, document shows
ROME, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Italy’s government is set to approve a parliamentary decree that will allow it to continue supplying military equipment to Ukraine to support its war effort […]
Hungary PM Orban’s Fidesz narrows gap on opposition rival, opinion poll shows
BUDAPEST, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party narrowed the gap on opposition rival Tisza in November, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday, helped by large-scale […]
Sri Lanka grapples with trauma, loss after deadly cyclone that killed hundreds
ALAWATHUGODA, Sri Lanka, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a bedsheet and running out of their home in central Sri Lanka as […]
Nigeria’s defence minister quits as government faces rising violence
LAGOS, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s defence minister has resigned, citing health reasons, President Bola Tinubu’s office said, as the West African country faces a surge in mass kidnappings that […]
‘Is she alive?’: Indonesian man’s hopes of finding missing wife fade after flood disaster
PALEMBAYAN, Indonesia, Dec 2 (Reuters) – In the days since cyclone-induced floods and landslides battered Indonesia’s Sumatra island, Abdul Ghani has been carrying around a picture of his missing wife, […]
Death toll from Indonesia’s floods and landslide hits 753, disaster agency says
JAKARTA, Dec 2 (Reuters) – The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 753 on Tuesday, the disaster agency said, with 504 people […]
Russian-flagged tanker reports attack off Turkey coast, maritime body says
ISTANBUL, Dec 2 (Reuters) – A Russian-flagged tanker sailing from Russia to Georgia loaded with sunflower oil reported that it was attacked off the Turkish coast but its 13 crew […]
A Japanese regional assembly is set to vote by December 22 on restarting nuclear plant
KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, Dec 2 (Reuters) – A Japanese regional assembly on Tuesday began deliberations on whether to partially restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest, as the nation […]